The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 194
‘King of the Peacocks,’ answered the King angrily, ‘you had better take care what you are about.
Who acts: King, you · What happens: answer, have, take, be · To what, where: King, care
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Peacocks | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Peacocks | det |
| 5 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 8 answered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 had | xcomp |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 about | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 about | cop |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | King of the Peacocks | the King | angrily property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | have | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | you not said here | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument care=Theme what=Destination | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | about property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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